Danish journalist Rikke Lyngvig is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group. With help from one of the terrorists, the young Nazir, Rikke manages to escape. On her return, she is soon declared the Danish Jessica Lynch and her career is launched into the spotlight. All the while Nazir flees from Afghanistan, heading for Denmark. When he finally seeks out Rikke, she is shocked and torn. Is she willing to help the man who threatened to kill her, and to jeopardize her new-found career? Their tumultuous encounter turns into an ill-fated confrontation with their own demons and a nation driven by a hunger for sensation and political populism.
Acting
Faegh Zamani's Nazir is devastatingly human, never letting you settle into easy hatred
Direction
Windfeld refuses to let the audience off the hook with catharsis
Writing
Rikke's media career becomes its own prison, as claustrophobic as captivity
Director
Kathrine Windfeld
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Denmark's debates over Afghanistan involvement, the film deliberately echoes the real 2009 Danish hostage crisis while refusing easy patriotism.
The 'Danish Jessica Lynch' framing isn't just Rikke's plot—it's the film's interrogation of how Nordic countries mythologize their own innocence abroad.
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